Cenozoic Seas: The View From Eastern North America

by Petuch; Edward J.

• ISBN13: 9780849316326
• ISBN10: 0849316324
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-29
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

>The rich fossil record of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States is a gold mine for interested scientists. The last thirty million years of Earth history are superbly chronicled by a succession of fossil assemblages extending from the St. Lawrence River to Florida. Marine scientists, paleontologists, and systematic biologists alike need a thorough guide to interpret this history.Cenozoic Seas: The View from Eastern North America analyzes the changing geography, the arrival and departures of ecosystems and species, and the affect of climate on living things. The author classifies all of the region's fossil-bearing formations and their contents within a logical, descriptive framework of space and time, providing a clear path for those studying evolution and extinction within specific communities of organisms.The book is also an excellent field guide for fossil collectors, providing detailed information for all species illustrated. Many organisms have never before been illustrated in a book on fossil shells.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Paleoseas of Cenozoic Eastern North America	1	(20)
Geochronology and Geography of the Eastern American Paleoseas	2	(12)
The Choctaw Sea	2	(3)
The Okeechobean Sea	5	(2)
The Raritan Sea	7	(1)
The Salisbury Sea	7	(2)
The Albemarle Sea	9	(2)
The Charleston Sea	11	(3)
Deposition within the eastern North American Paleoseas	14	(7)
Chapter 2. Biogeography of the Eastern American Paleoseas	21	(36)
Marine Provinces of Rupelian to earliest Chattian Oligocene Time	23	(7)
The Proto-Transmarian Province	23	(2)
The Antiguan Province	25	(3)
The Pernambucan Province	28	(2)
Marine Provinces of latest Chattian Oligocene to late Tortonian Miocene Time	30	(13)
The Transmarian Province	30	(4)
The Baitoan Province	34	(9)
The Platensian Province	43	(1)
Marine Provinces of late Tortonian Miocene to Calabrian Pleistocene Time	43	(10)
The Caloosahatchian Province	44	(4)
The Gatunian Province	48	(5)
The Camachoan Province	53	(1)
Marine Provinces of early Pleistocene to Recent Time	53	(4)
The Carolinian Province	54	(1)
The Caribbean Province	54	(2)
The Brazilian Province	56	(1)
Chapter 3. Oligocene and Earliest Miocene Seas	57	(22)
Communities and Environments of the Bainbridge Subsea	57	(8)
Communities and Environments of the Silverdale Subsea	65	(5)
Communities and Environments of the Tampa Subsea	70	(9)
Chapter 4. Early Miocene Seas	79	(22)
Communities and Environments of the Chipola Subsea	79	(8)
Communities and Environments of the Calvert Subsea	87	(8)
Communities and Environments of the Pamlico Subsea	95	(6)
Chapter 5. Middle and Late Miocene Seas	101	(34)
Communities and Environments of the Patuxent Subsea	101	(8)
Communities and Environments of the St. Mary's Subsea	109	(14)
Communities and Environments of the Rappahannock Subsea	123	(4)
Communities and Environments of the Walton Subsea	127	(1)
Communities and Environments of the Alaqua Subsea	128	(1)
Communities and Environments of the Polk Subsea	128	(2)
Communities and Environments of the Charlotte Subsea	130	(5)
Chapter 6. Early and Late Pliocene Seas	135	(28)
Communities and Environments of the Williamsburg Subsea	135	(4)
Communities and Environments of the Murdock Subsea	139	(2)
Communities and Environments of the Santee Subsea	141	(3)
Communities and Environments of the Yorktown Subsea	144	(8)
Communities and Environments of the Duplin Subsea	152	(5)
Communities and Environments of the Jackson Subsea	157	(6)
Chapter 7. The Everglades Pseudoatoll	163	(38)
The Early Piacenzian Communities of the Everglades Pseudoatoll	166	(5)
The Middle Piacenzian Communities of the Everglades Pseudoatoll	171	(5)
The Late Piacenzian Communities of the Everglades Pseudoatoll	176	(25)
Chapter 8. Latest Pliocene and Earliest Pleistocene Seas	201	(26)
Communities and Environments of the late Yorktown Subsea	203	(2)
Communities and Environments of the Croatan Subsea	205	(3)
Communities and Environments of the Waccamaw Subsea	208	(1)
Communities and Environments of the Nashua Lagoon System	208	(4)
Communities and Environments of the Caloosahatchee Subsea	212	(15)
Chapter 9. Early and Late Pleistocene Seas	227	(32)
Communities and Environments of the Loxahatchee Subsea	228	(8)
Communities and Environments of the Belle Glade Subsea	236	(9)
Communities and Environments of the Socastee Lagoon system	245	(2)
Communities and Environments of the Lake Worth Subsea	247	(6)
Communities and Environments of the Champlain Sea	253	(6)
Chapter 10. Biotic Patterns in Time and Space	259	(10)
Patterns of Extinction in the Eastern North American Paleoseas	259	(10)
The Suwannean Extinction	260	(1)
The Chipolan Extinction	260	(1)
The Transmarian Extinction	261	(1)
The Caloosahatchian Extinction	262	(2)
The Evergladesian Extinction	264	(1)
Geographical Heterochrony in Eastern North America	264	(5)
Systematic Appendix	269	(28)
Descriptions of New Index Species and Genera	269	(28)
References	297	(8)
Index	305